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Editorial policy

How we write, review, and update content

UK visa rules change often. Here's how we keep findmyvisa accurate, what counts as a primary source, and what to do if you spot a mistake.

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What we publish

findmyvisa publishes general information about UK visa applications: route overviews, document checklists, fee tables, processing times, and practical guides on how to use the official UKVI / UKVCAS / VFS Global portals. We also build free browser-based tools that help with the document side of an application.

We do not publish individual immigration advice. Whether a specific visa is right for your situation, whether to appeal a refusal, or how to handle a complex case — those questions belong with an IAA-registered immigration adviser, who is regulated to give that advice.

Sourcing standards

Every factual claim on the site falls into one of these categories:

  • Primary sources — gov.uk pages, the Home Office's published Immigration Rules, and the Immigration Advice Authority's register. These are cited inline (not just in references) and treated as authoritative when they conflict with anything else.
  • Parliamentary research — the House of Commons Library briefings on migration, fee changes, and rule revisions. Used for context and policy background.
  • Secondary expert sources — Electronic Immigration Network, established immigration law firms (Davidson Morris, Reiss Edwards, Sterling Law, Wesley Gryk and similar), and academic legal commentary. Used for nuance and to cross-check primary readings.

We do not cite social media posts, anonymous blog comments, or unauthored "visa news" sites. Where Reddit threads or community forums provide useful context, we describe them as such — they are not treated as evidence of policy or practice.

The review process

  1. Drafting — content is researched and drafted by Mahadheer Manu using the sourcing standards above.
  2. IAA reviewer pass — every visa-route guide is reviewed by an Immigration Advice Authority-registered adviser before publication. Their name and IAA registration number appear on each page they reviewed. We pay reviewers; they have no editorial veto on tone but do veto on accuracy.
  3. gov.uk cross-check — every fee, salary threshold, processing time, and named rule is verified against the relevant gov.uk page on the publication date. The "Verified · gov.uk · [date]" stamp at the top of each guide reflects this check.
  4. Quarterly re-review — every guide is re-reviewed quarterly, and the "Last updated" date refreshes only when a real review happened (not on routine site rebuilds).

What we do when rules change

Home Office rule changes — fee increases, salary threshold adjustments, new visa routes, processing time updates — are tracked daily via the gov.uk RSS feeds and the Immigration Rules statement of changes publications.

When a relevant change lands:

  • Affected pages are updated within 7 days, with the "Last updated" date refreshed and the change noted in the page's revision history (kept in our git repository, public on request).
  • For major changes (new routes, headline fee increases, threshold shifts), a dedicated update post is published.
  • The IAA-registered reviewer is notified and signs off on the updated version before it goes live.

Corrections

We will get things wrong sometimes. When we do:

  • Spot a mistake and email hello@findmyvisa.co.uk.
  • We respond within 48 hours on weekdays. Substantive errors are fixed immediately; the page's "Last updated" date is refreshed.
  • Material errors (those that could mislead an applicant on a fee, threshold, or eligibility test) are noted in a "Corrections" log in the page's git history.

Use of AI

Drafting and editing on this site is done by humans — Mahadheer Manu and contributors, with IAA reviewer sign-off. AI tools are used for routine writing assistance (grammar, structure suggestions, code scaffolding), not for generating or fact-checking visa guidance. Every published page has a named human author, and IAA-reviewed pages have a named human reviewer with their registration number.

Conflicts of interest

We will, in future, partner with IAA-registered immigration advisers who pay for qualified-lead referrals when readers explicitly request professional help. These partnerships will be disclosed on the affiliate disclosure page.

We are not paid by, nor affiliated with, the Home Office, UKVI, UKVCAS, VFS Global, Sopra Steria, or any law firm. The site has no display ads as of the date above.

Sister-site disclosure

findmyvisa is part of the WayaNerd group, which also operates Tarve (UK visa-sponsored jobs board). Cross-links between findmyvisa and Tarve appear in route guides where readers are likely to be searching for both visa information and sponsoring employers. We do not receive separate compensation for these cross-links beyond the shared business interest in growing all WayaNerd properties.

These cross-references are placed contextually (in relevant prose), never as sitewide footer links, and the relationship is disclosed here, on the About page, and in our schema.org sameAs structured data. We follow Google's published guidance on disclosing related sites.